Schoolchildren will no longer have to study any of Krylov's fables or Pushkin's poems: against the backdrop of the intention of the Ministry of Culture to withdraw Russian literature from library collections, a similar decision was made with respect to the school curriculum. In addition to the writers of the Russian Federation, the works of Belarusian writers will also disappear, writes the specialized publication Tiktor..

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Sixth graders will get acquainted with the fable genre using the works of Jean de La Fontaine as an example, they will appreciate adventure and fantasy with Charles Dickens, Jules Verne and Robert Stevenson.

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Instead of Pushkin's poetry, children will now read Adam Mickiewicz, Wolfgang Goethe, Heinrich Heine.

Ninth-graders bypass the whole block of Russian literature previously provided for study. It will be replaced by such works as Jane Austen's Dignity and Pride, Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, or Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness..

Tenth graders will not study Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist because of his statements about support for Russian politics and its military component in particular.

For eleventh graders, they provided for the “Plague” by the French existentialist Albert Camus, which is relevant in the post-COVID era. The novel "

Earlier, Ukrainian illustrator Maxim Palenko made a poster depicting famous Russian writers as prisoners of war, statistics on which were recently announced by the Ministry of Justice.

" In the early 2000s, the description of the behavior of the tsarist army in the Caucasus in his story " About whether Ukrainians need Russian literature, read the article by the author ZN. UA of Anna Brodsky-Krotkina.